Reconstruction

Question 1

The time period (1865-1877) following the Civil War when the country had to be rebuilt.

Answer 1

Reconstruction

Question 2

A government pardon for wrongdoings.

Answer 2

Amnesty

Question 3

Former slaves

Answer 3

Freedmen

Question 4

Laws in the South that were meant to control freedmen.

Answer 4

Black codes

Question 5

The process of bringing formal charges against a public official

Answer 5

Impeach

Question 6

A person that supports extreme political or social reform

Answer 6

Radical

Question 7

Changing something with the intent to improve it

Answer 7

Reform

Question 8

Farmers rent land from a landowner in exchange for a percentage of the value of the crop that is farmed. System in the South that seems to replace slavery.

Answer 8

Sharecropping

Question 9

Segregation

Answer 9

Enforced separation of races

Question 10

The plan that required 10% of a state’s voters to swear loyalty to the U.S. It also included ratifying the 13th amendment and amnesty for most Confederates.

Answer 10

Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan

Question 11

Why were Radical Republicans thought to be “radical?”

Answer 11

They were thought to be extreme in their Reconstruction plan. They wanted rights for freedmen and punishment for Confederates.

Question 12

What did the Freedmen’s Bureau do?

Answer 12

It provided emergency relief, education, help finding work, help settling disputes, etc.

Question 13

The plan that required states to ratify the 13th amendment, granted amnesty to former Confederates, and allowed Southern states to elect representatives to the U.S. House.

Answer 13

Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan

Question 14

What did the 13th amendment do?

Answer 14

It abolished slavery

Question 15

What did the 14th amendment do?

Answer 15

It established that anyone born in the U.S. is a U.S. citizen and it said that all citizens are equally protected under the laws of the U.S.

Question 16

What did the 15th amendment do?

Answer 16

It granted voting rights to more people by stating that states can’t deny people the right to vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

Question 17

Why was President Johnson impeached?

Answer 17

Congress accused him of violating the Tenure of Office Act when he dismissed Edwin Stanton

Question 18

What were the two main goals of the Radical Republicans?

Answer 18

Punish former Confederates and give rights to freedmen

Question 19

What did the Radical Reconstruction Act of 1867 include?

Answer 19

Divide South into 5 military districts with a General in charge of each one. New state constitution written. 13th and 14th amendments.

Question 20

What were the years of Presidential Reconstruction?

Answer 20

1865-1866

Question 21

What were the years of Radical Reconstruction?

Answer 21

1867-1877

Question 22

Who was Thaddeus Stevens?

Answer 22

Radical Republican Representative from Pennsylvania that proposed giving Southern land to freedmen

Question 23

What were the Black Codes?

Answer 23

Southern laws that restricted freedmen and created a situation that put them back into a situation that resembled slavery. (1865-1866)

Question 24

Uncomplimentary nickname for a northern white who went to the South after the Civil War to start a business or pursue a political career

Answer 24

Carpetbagger

Question 25

Southern white who had opposed secession and joined the Republican party after the Civil War

Answer 25

Scalawag

Question 26

Freedmen who migrated to Kansas from the South after Reconstruction ended

Answer 26

Exoduster

Question 27

Actor and Confederate sympathizer who murdered Lincoln

Answer 27

John Wilkes Booth

Question 28

A war hero who won the presidential election in 1868 and served two terms during Reconstruction

Answer 28

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 29

He lost the popular vote, but won the election in 1876. When he became President, he ended Reconstruction.

Answer 29

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 30

Where did most African Americans live during Reconstruction?

Answer 30

The South

Question 31

What was the grandfather clause?

Answer 31

It excused a voter from a literacy test if his father or grandfather had voted in an election prior to Jan. 1, 1867.

Question 32

What are “Jim Crow” laws?

Answer 32

Segregation laws such as separate schools for blacks and whites

Question 33

Why did the KKK form?

Answer 33

White southerners who were losing power during Reconstruction wanted to regain control, so they used terror to prevent African Americans from exercising their newly gained rights.